The sure-handed direction of Carl Franklin...makes a complex story both lucid and believable.
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Out of Time (2003)
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Reviews Counted:141
Fresh:91
Rotten:50
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: A fun and stylish thriller if you can get pass the contrivances.
Theatrical Release:Oct 3, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $40,905,277
Synopsis: How do you solve a murder when all the evidence points to you? Suppose everything you knew – everything you trusted – became a lie. For Matt Lee Whitlock, that nightmare has become a... [More]
Starring: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Dean Cain, Sanaa Lathan
Director: Carl Franklin
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Reviews for Out of Time
Knows how to have fun, and isn't afraid of breaking some plausibility rules to do it.
10/02/03
A blah title for a surprisingly taut, energetic film, which just begs to be called Run Denzel Run.
10/02/03
Lathan and Mendes are both exceptionally fine, and Cain is nicely creepy and menacing. Wisecracking sidekick Billingsly gives his line readings a deliciously offbeat spin.
10/02/03
Gripping crime thriller that reunites Devil in a Blue Dress star Denzel Washington with director Carl Franklin and, in many ways, reinvents the genre.
10/02/03
Top CriticAlthough it is briskly directed and enjoyably stylized, the film is shallow.
10/02/03
Top CriticDespite the standard-issue ingredients -- the palm trees, the femme fatale, the dirty money -- there's something about the movie that sets it apart from the usual thriller.
10/02/03
Despite some lapses of logic, Out of Time puts the fun back into moviegoing.
10/02/03
Top CriticA serviceable picture, but hardly a top-notch vehicle for Washington's remarkable gifts.
10/02/03
Screenwriter Dave Collard doesn't give the movie much of an ending -- the story's rough edges are miraculously smoothed over, thanks to some fortuitous personality changes -- but most of "Time" is enjoyably taut...
10/02/03
Out of Time doesn't really make sense, but it's fun to watch.
10/02/03
Top CriticOut of Time takes its time getting going, but once it finally reaches cruising speed, it moves along nicely.
10/02/03
At its best, Franklin's work is stylish and headily atmospheric.
10/02/03
[An] entertainingly deft sleight-of-hand thriller.
10/02/03
Top CriticThe ending is several shades too blanc for true noir, but director Carl Franklin leads us through a satisfying labyrinth of easy corruption and hard consequences.
10/02/03
Despite being entirely unrealistic, this is a mildly entertaining movie thanks to its breezy tone and a cast that seems to be having a good time.
10/02/03
A throwaway thriller with some crowd-pleasing qualities.
10/02/03
Top CriticDenzel has made better pictures.
10/02/03
Just not smart enough to allow one to swallow all the coincidences and contrivances on the way to its disappointingly predictable conclusion.
10/02/03
If you're willing to forgive some unlikely scenarios, Out of Time is cracking good fun
10/02/03
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